Batumi: the Second Day of Play. Huang Qian - Cramling, Stefanova - Kosteniuk and Other Games

The fourth round of the Women's Rapid World Championship has started at 15.00 Moscow time in Batumi. There will be three rounds in total today: at 15.00, 17.00 and 19.00. You can follow the games live.

You can watch live video transmission from the press centre at 17.00, where Mark Dvoretsky will commentate the games. The President of the Association of Chess Professionals Emil Sutovsky will also take part.

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The tenth and penultimate round games of the Women's Rapid World Championship have started at 15.00 Moscow time. The sole leader Antoaneta Stefanova is White against Anna Muzychuk; Alexandra Kosteniuk, who's chasing the Bulgarian, also has White against Kateryna Lahno. Follow these and other games live and listen to the commentary by Mark Dvoretsky and other guests of the press centre on our site.

The encounters of Round 7 of the Women's World Rapid Championship started at 15:00 MSK Time in Batumi, Georgia. Today the rivals will again play three rounds. Follow the games live, as well as Chess-News broadcast from the press center, where Mark Dvoretsky will again be the main commentator.

The 1st round of the Women's World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship has started at 15:00 MSK Time in Batumi, Georgia. Among 50 participants who will fight in the competition there are legendary Maia Chiburdanidze, Nona Gaprindashvili and Nino Gurieli. The participants will play three rounds in the upcoming three days: at 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00, while the final day of the tournament will have only two rounds at 15:00 and 17:00.

The first day of the Women's Rapid World Championship in Batumi was already very eventful. The tough field of congregated players (there are 50 participants) means that it's possible to play against a difficult opponent in any round, irrespective of a player's position in the table. Overall, it's the Chinese who are setting the tone for the competition. One of them, Huang Qian, has already won against Tatiana Kosintseva, Zhu Chen and Maia Chiburdanidze.

At 14.00 Moscow time in Kutaisi, the women's European Rapid Championships start. In all, there will be 11 rounds - four today and tomorrow, and three on Wednesday. Time control 15'+10''. Follow live games here

At the today's press conference in Batumi, the President of the Association of the Chess Professionals Emil Sutovsky announced that FIDE delegated its rights to the Association for the organisation of the Women's Rapid and Blitz World Championships next year.

The first day of the Women's Blitz World Championship has started at 15.00 Moscow time in Batumi. 8 out of 15 rounds will be played today. The start of each round is every half an hour: the second round starts at 15.30, third at 16.00 and so on. You can follow live transmission of the first ten boards on the main page of Chess-News. The pairings and results are here.